Wool Market Advances
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The wool market to-day advanced another 5 per cent for the greater bulk of merino, with the exception of very burry…
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Farming & the land, 1950
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Butter, Rice Cut to Be Reviewed
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth Government is inquiring into factors that could assist in the removal of restrictions on the purchase of butter and rice…
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LONDON: Britain is expected to ask the United States to lower duties on imported wool cloth when signatories to the…
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As the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. McEwen) has admitted, a new review of butter rationing is called for in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last of Season's Wool Arrives
Hundreds of bales of wool have been arriving in Newcastle wool stores each day for a fortnight in preparation for the sales to be held…
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The 9000-ton French motor ship Mekong is expected to arrive in Newcastle about the middle of next month on her maiden voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers Defer Decision On New Union
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The annual conference of the Junior Farmers Clubs' Council to-day deferred for 12 months a decision to affiliate…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Exports of greasy wool during the nine months to March 31 earned Australia £188,540,000, compared with…
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BRADFORD, Tues. (O.S.R.): The wool market tension is rising as top prices reach levels unknown even in the boom which followed the first world war. Bradford's demand for wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Refresher Course For Farmers
The Department of Agriculture has advised the District Fruit Inspector (Mr. R. Job) that a five weeks' refresher course in sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Returns Overdue; In Maitland District
A number of agricultural and pastoral statistic returns from landholders in the Maitland and Lochinvar police patrols,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stud Cattle Sales at Maitland
More than 200 attended the first annual Hunter Valley stud dairy cattle sale conducted at Maitland saleyards today by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minister Warns On Butter, Tea De-rationing
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—If the Commonwealth Government de-rationed tea and butter and withdrew subsidies from them it would wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Wool Prices At Brisbane Sales
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Queensland price records for both greasy and scoured wools were broken to-day at the Brisbane sales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Fabric Inlaid With Rabbit Fur
NEW YORK: A mechanical process for "Inlaying" rabbit fur on woollen fabrics is in an advanced stage and regular…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Harry, 81, Looks Forward, Stays In Past
LONDON. — Farmer Harry Witherden, 81 this year, had a look through his wardrobe the other day and found he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Service for Stud Sheep
SYDNEY.—A.N.A. will operate an air freighter shuttle service to grazier George Falkiner's Haddon Rig stud, at…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Large Quantities Of Wool Arriving For Next Sales
Large quantities of wool are arriving at Newcastle storage depots in readiness for the last wool sale of the season which will be held at the Exchange in Telford St., on May 31 and June 1. Brokers in Newcastle estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mobile Heater For U.K. Farms
This mobile beating unit provides hot water for U.K. farmers wherever they need it on the farm. Heat is obtained farm a gas container. The heater is seen at work in a calving shed in England…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ex-Minister Lashes At British Farmers
LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): A "rebel" Minister, sacked by Mr. Attlee for saying that farmers were "featherbedded," lashed out again at them yesterday in the House of…
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